YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'When you think about running a business, staying on top of the communications system generally isn’t the first thing that comes to mind. While this process isn’t as exciting as brokering new deals and expanding into new industries, the reality is that communications serve as the central nervous system of your entire organization. Having a fault or defect anywhere along the way invites chaos and confusion to enter the business place.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'InformationWeek has a nearly 1,500 word column about a session with Bill McDermott. And he talks about the younger, greener SAP. And he talks about HANA and he talks about Oracle. What’s striking is there is no mention of SAP.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'If you want people to invest in your idea, then my best advice is first write a business plan, and keep it simple. Don''t confuse your business plan with a doctoral thesis or the back of a napkin. Keep the wording and formatting straightforward, and keep the plan short. For minimum content, see my article “ These 10 Key Elements Make a Business Plan Fundable.

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deal architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'I looked around the room during Marc Benioff’s press conference at Dreamforce, and felt pride that bloggers were the ones asking the smartest questions. They are banded together at ZDNet, Constellation, Forbes and Diginomica or stay solo like Brian Vellmure.

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Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Lag can be a big problem for people who are trying to make the most of the internet experience, especially those who play games over the internet. Due to lag, people may experience delays, as well as losing connection to their server repeatedly. Visit iiNets wireless broadband page today to find out more about their plans & availability. To fix lag and improve your download speeds, you will need to reduce your network latency.

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Networking Bandwidth Internet Programming 178

deal architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'“Books of quotations are cluttered with sayings attributed to Anon, and these scraps of truth and wisdom have earned Anon universal recognition and immortality” says this essay which celebrates the prolific author. Problem is the essay was written before the.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'By Sanjay Castelino, VP and market leader, SolarWinds. While a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy may make your employees happier and possibly more proactive, engaged, and productive, it also introduces significant new risks to your network security. According to Gartner, enterprises are aware of only 80 percent of the devices on their network. Those 20 percent of unknown devices are inside the perimeter of the network, are unmanaged, and provide users with access.

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The Equity Kicker

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'LPs, the investors in VC funds, have a difficult job to do, largely because they have to work with poor quality data and only a small fraction of VCs deliver the returns that make them worth investing in. The problem is made worse by the fact that LP demand to invest in the handful of serially successful VCs well outstrips supply and most LPs have to invest most or all of their venture allocation in other VC funds.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Brian Honigman is a marketing consultant, a freelance writer and a social media enthusiast. This post was originally published on Jumplead. . You don’t need a master’s degree in marketing to understand that quality customer service is crucial to the long-term success of your business. Your existing customers will become your most vocal advocates and help grow your customer base on your behalf if you provide a worthwhile and memorable experience each and every time.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'By LAURA LOREK Founder of Silicon Hills News The demand for high tech workers outstrips the supply. So Rackspace Hosting came up with an innovative solution. The San Antonio-based company launched the Open Cloud Academy last year to put people through a rigorous training program that equips them to do jobs as network systems administrators […] The post New Rules, New Tools for Startups and Tech Companies appeared first on SiliconHills.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Sam Walton once said that he believed he was K-Mart’s best customer. He visited the K-Mart stores throughout the country every chance he had. On one particular visit, Walton discovered a massive innovation that K-Mart had brought about. Instead of departmental checkout registers, they had centralized their checkouts at the store’s exit.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'If I was going to start a venture capital fund around a theme, I''d pick something a little different. Forget Enterprise, or Mobile. It wouldn''t be "networks" or any other standard classification of startup. I''d start a fund around "Play". Play, it seems, is making a huge comeback. Sure, people have been playing things for years, but it feels like it''s mostly been about games. games that have winners and losers, leaderboards and points.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Keeping Promises Is What Makes Us Worthy of Trust written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing The cover story of this month’s Spirit magazine by Gabbi Chee chronicles the story of young man named Alex Sheen who quit his job to honor a promise. He later created an non profit organization called “ because I said I would ” that encourages individuals to make and keep promises to themselves and others.

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Rob Go

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'I’m in a reflective mood as Thanksgiving is around the corner, and I’ve been thinking a lot about motivation. If nothing else, entrepreneurs need a LOT of it to push through the valleys between the peaks. When I think about it, I believe everyone’s motivations are driven by some combination of Love, Greed, and Fear. Some thoughts below on each one.

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Jeff Hilimire

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'I’ve long been a proponent of open office environments and over three years ago made the decision that I’ll never work in a personal office again. And one of my proudest moments toward the end of Engauge was getting the team leaders to agree to sit out in the open with their teams, which in the agency business is a crazy concept because everyone wants to get an office once they get to a certain level (like most businesses).

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Early Growth Financial Services

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Originally published in Small Business Trends. It doesn’t matter how robust the company wellness program is or how relaxing the nap room feels—when two or more employees are stuck in a negative situation, the entire startup suffers. Whether they’re butting heads on a new collaborative project or talking behind each other’s backs about a personal matter, it’s up to the boss to put an end to the conflict and bring the office morale—and productivity—back up to par.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'By ALAN WEINKRANTZ Special Contributor to Silicon Hills News I have been traveling back and forth to Israel for just about twenty years. Most of what I worked on with my Israeli clients has been focused on platform technologies such as the commercialization of VoIP, the rise of computer security, the birth of rapid prototyping […] The post Insights from Gov.

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VC Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

'Harvard Professor Yochai Benkler has a radical premise: cooperation triumphs over self-interest. In a lecture this month in Tel Aviv, he called for cooperation and community as a tool to fundamentally transform business. “In today’s knowledge economy, the most valuable resources –information and knowledge- are a public good, and the best way to develop and maximize this good is through millions of networked people pooling that knowledge and working together to create new products, ideas and sol

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